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Online gaming ban: The state should quit playing nanny

New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- Last week, out of the blue, the Government of India brought a Rs.2 trillion industry to its knees. Over the course of a few short days, a brand new law against online gambling wa... Read More


Free-AI: How well India adopts AI will shape its future

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- For the past six months, I served on the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Committee on the Framework for the Responsible and Ethical Enablement of AI (Free-AI). It has been an enric... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Can driverless cars tame Indian traffic?

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Each year, over a million people die in automobile accidents around the world. While this might seem like a high number in absolute terms, it has been trending downwards on a per... Read More


Newly proposed OTP rules: A case of regulatory overreach in telecom?

New Delhi, July 29 -- As transactions have grown increasingly digital, service providers rarely (if ever) come face-to-face with their customers. This means that without reliable means of authenticati... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Writers should stop worrying and learn to love GenAI

New Delhi, July 22 -- There is a widespread misconception that copyright law exists to provide authors with the incentive to write. But most writers are unable to earn a living off writing. With Gene... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Technology and law are joined at the hip as they evolve together

New Delhi, July 15 -- There is a long-standing view that law is part of the natural order of society. Thinkers like Aristotle and Cicero believed human laws mirrored the laws of nature. Hobbes claimed... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Indian genes could save the world from rare diseases

New Delhi, July 8 -- In an episode of my podcast titled 'The Incurable Disease,' I told of how a husband and wife with no previous medical training or experience built a genetics laboratory in a bunga... Read More


Rahul Matthan: Save open-source software from a tragedy of the commons

New Delhi, July 1 -- The vulnerability found on the open-source logging library Log4j was one of the most serious ever detected. It was ranked 10th on the Common Vulnerability Severity Score on accoun... Read More


Rahul Matthan: How age tokens to get past age gates favour free speech

New Delhi, June 24 -- In September 2022, California governor Gavin Newsom signed the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) into law, introducing a new legislative framework to protect children onli... Read More


Rahul Matthan: AI models aren't copycats but learners just like us

New Delhi, June 17 -- On 11 June 2025, Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, claiming that the AI image-generation platform was creating "recognisable" images of characters over whi... Read More